CURRICULUM VITAE

ANN L. MCGILL

 

UNIVERSITY ADDRESS

 

University of Chicago                                                            

Booth School of Business

5807 South Woodlawn Avenue                                                        

Chicago, IL 60637

(773) 702-7448

ann.mcgill@chicagobooth.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.  University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, 1986.

M.B.A. University of Chicago, Chicago, Booth School of Business, Illinois, 1985.

B.B.A. (High Distinction), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (1997-present).

            Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing, and Behavioral Science (2001-present).

            Deputy Dean for the Full-time MBA Programs (July 2001-June 2003).

            Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Science (1997-2001).

 

Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1988-1997).

            Associate Professor of Marketing (1991-1997).

            Assistant Professor of Marketing (1988-1991).

 

New York University (1986-1988).

            Assistant Professor of Marketing.

 

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (1981-1986).

            Full-time graduate student.

 

Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Detroit, Michigan (1980-1981).

            Auditor.

            C.P.A. examination passed May, 1980.

 

Academic Visiting Appointments and Sponsored Internships.

            Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (Winter-Spring, 1997).

            Chulalongkorn University, Sasin Graduate Institute, Bangkok, Thailand (Autumn, 1991).

            INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (Autumn, 1989 and 1990).

            McCann-Erickson Worldwide, Advertising Education Foundation (Summer, 1988).

 

HONORS

 

Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 2009-10.

 

Editor, Journal of Consumer Research, 2009-present.  Associate Editor, 2005-2009.

 

Co-chair (with Sharon Shavitt), Association for Consumer Research, North American Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2008

 

Provost’s Teaching Award, University of Chicago, 2006.

 

McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, awarded bi-annually, 2005.

 

Faculty Convocation Speaker, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, 2002.

 

Outstanding Professor Award, Executive Masters Program, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1996.

 

J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Faculty Honor Roll, 1988-96.

 

Doctoral Consortium Faculty, 1995, 1996, 2006.

 

Stewart Henderson Britt Research Chair in Marketing, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995.

 

Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for Outstanding Classroom Contributions, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1993.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Tsai, Claire I, and Ann L. McGill, (forthcoming) “The Effects of Fluency and Construal Level on Confidence Judgments,” Journal of Consumer Research.

 

Faro, David, Ann L. McGill, and Reid Hastie, (2010) “Naïve Theories of Causal Force and a Compression of Elapsed Time,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 683-701.

 

Van Voorhees, Benjamin W., Natalie Watson, John F. P. Bridges, Joshua Fogel, Jill Gallas, Clark Kramer, Marc Connery, Ann L. McGill, Monika Marko, Alonso Cardenas, Josephine Landback, Karoline Dmochowska, Sachiko A. Kuwasbara, Justin Ellis, Micah Prochaska, Carl Bell (2010), “Development and Pilot Study of a Marketing Strategy for Primary Care/Internet Based Depression Prevention Intervention for Adolescents (CATCH-IT), The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 12(3), 1-9.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (continued)

 

McGill, Ann L. and Sharon Shavitt (Eds.) (2009), Advances in Consumer Research, Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research.

 

Ramanathan, Suresh and Ann L. McGill (2007), “Consuming with Others:  Social Influences on Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Evaluations of an Experience,” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (December), 506-524.

 

Pankaj Aggarwal and Ann L. McGill (2007), “Is That Car Smiling at Me:  Schema Congruity as a Basis for the Evaluation of Anthropomorphized Products,Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (December), 468-479.

 

Botti, Simona and Ann L. McGill (2006), “When Choosing is Not Deciding: The Effect of Perceived Responsibility on Satisfaction,” Journal of Consumer Research, 33 (September), 211-219. (Winner of the Robert Ferber Award for best article based on a dissertation.)

 

Botti, Simona and Ann L. McGill (2005), “When Choosing is Not Deciding:  The Effect of Perceived Responsibility on Choice Outcome Satisfaction,” in Cornelia Pechmann and Linda L. Price (ed.) Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. XXXIII, Association for Consumer Research, 512-513.

 

Botti, Simona, Ann L. McGill, and Sheen S. Iynegar (2003), “Preference for Control and Its Effects on the Evaluation of Consumption Experiences,” in Punam A. Keller and Dennis W. Rook (ed.) Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. XXX, Association for Consumer Research, 127-128.

 

McGill, Ann L.  (2002), “Alignable and Nonalignable Differences in Causal Explanations,” Memory and Cognition, 30, 456-468.

 

Felcher, E. Marla, Prashant Malaviya, and Ann L. McGill (2001), “The Role of Taxonomic and

Goal-Derived Product Categorization in Within and Across Category Judgments,” Psychology and Marketing 18, 865-887.

 

McGill, Ann L. and Ann E. Tenbrunsel (2000), "Mutability and Propensity in Causal Selection,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 677-689 .

 

Grier, Sonya A. and Ann L. McGill (2000), "How We Explain Depends on Whom We Explain:  The Impact of Social Category Membership on the Selection of Causal Comparisons and Causal Explanations,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 545-566.

 

McGill, Ann L. (2000), "Counterfactual Reasoning in Causal Judgment: Implications for Marketing,” Psychology and Marketing, 17, 323-343.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (continued)

 

McGill, Ann L. (1998), “Relative Use of Necessity and Sufficiency Information in Causal Judgments about Natural Categories,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 70-81.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1997), “Causal Background” in Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.  Malden, MA: Blackwell 102-104.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1996), "Responsibility Judgments and the Causal Background," in David M. Messick and Ann E. Tenbrunsel (ed.), Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics.  New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 228-242.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1995), "North American and Thai Managers' Explanations for Poor Company Performance:  Role of Culture and Perspective in Causal Selection," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 61, 1-12.

 

McGill, Ann L. and Jill G. Klein (1995), "Counterfactual and Contrastive Reasoning in Explanations for Performance:  Implications for Gender Bias," in Neal J. Roese and James M. Olson (ed.), What Might Have Been: The Social Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 333-352.

 

Keller, Punam Anand and Ann L. McGill, (1994), "Differences in the Relative Influence of Product Attributes Under Alternative Processing Conditions: Attribute Importance Versus Attribute Ease of Imagability," Journal of Consumer Psychology, 3, 29-49.

 

McGill, Ann L. and Jill G. Klein (1993), "Counterfactual and Contrastive Reasoning in Causal Judgment," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 897-905.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1993), "Selection of a Causal Background:  Role of Expectation versus Feature Mutability," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 701-707.

 

McGill, Ann L., and Dawn Iacobucci (1992), "The Role of Post-Experience Comparison Standards in the Evaluation of Unfamiliar Services." in Brian S. Sternthal and John F. Sherry Jr. (ed.), Advances in Consumer Research, Association for Consumer Research, Vol. XIX, 570-578.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1991), "Conjunctive Explanations: Accounting for Events that Differ from Several Norms," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 527-549.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1991), "The Influence of the Causal Background on the Selection of Causal Explanation­s," British Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 79-87.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1990), "Conjunctive Explanations: The Effect of Comparison of the Target Episode to a Contrasting Background Instance," Social Cognition, 8, 362-382.

PUBLICATIONS (continued)

 

McGill, Ann L. (1990), "Predicting Consumers' Reactions to Product Failure:  Do Responsibility Judgments Follow from Consumers' Causal Explanations," Marketing Letters, 2, 59-70.

 

Iacobucci, Dawn and Ann L. McGill (1990), "Analysis of Attribution Data:  Theory Testing and Effects Estimation," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 426-441.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1990), "The Effect of Direction Comparison on the Selection of Causal Explanations," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 26, 93-107.

 

McGill, Ann L., and Punam Anand (1989), "The Effect of Imagery on Information Processing Strategy in a Multiattribute Choice Task," Marketing Letters, 1, 7-16.

 

McGill, Ann L. (1989), "Context Effects in Judgments of Causation," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 189-200.

 

McGill, Ann L. and Punam Anand (1989), "The Effect of Vivid Attributes on the Evaluation of Alternatives:  The Role of Differential Attention and Cognitive Elaboration," Journal of Consumer Research, 16 (September), 188-196.

 

McGill, Ann L., and Punam Anand (1988), "Processing by Attribute Versus Brand: The Mediating Role of Imagery," abstract, in Michael S. Houston (ed.), Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. XV, Association for Consumer Research, 184.

 

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW OR REVISION

 

 

Botti, Simona and Ann L. McGill, “Differences in Satisfaction for Hedonic and Utilitarian Choices: The Influence of Perceived Personal Causality” under second review at the Journal of Consumer Research.

 

Ramanathan, Suresh, Kathleen Vohs, and Ann L. McGill, “Affective Dynamics and Synchrony among Friends and Strangers,” under review at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

Kim, Sara and Ann L. McGill, “Gaming with Mr. Slot or Gaming the Slot Machine? Power, Anthropomorphism, and Risk Perception,” under revision for the Journal of Consumer Research.

 

Aggarwal, Pankaj and Ann L. McGill, “Self and the Extended Possession: Adopting Traits of Anthropomorphized Brands,” under revision for the Journal of Consumer Research.

 

 

 

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROCESS

 

 

Meisler, Linda, Jan Landwehr, Andreas Hermann, and Ann L. McGill, “The Face of Anthropomorphism.”

 

Aggarwal, Pankaj, Simona Botti, and Ann L. McGill, “To Choose or Not to Choose? The Influence of Relationship Norms on Satisfaction with Decision Outcomes.”

 

Bart De Langhe, Aparna Labroo, and Ann L. McGill, "Is Price a Devil to Be Disguised? The Effects of Price Visibility on the Anticipated Utility of Consumer Products."

 

Faro, David and Ann L. McGill, “Consumers’ Use of Stereotypes in Public and Private.”

 

Ramanathan, Suresh, Joan Phillips, and Ann L. McGill, “The Influence of Physical Proximity and Shared or Differing Political Views of Other Voters on Moment-to-Moment Evaluations During the 2008 Presidential Debates.”

 

Tillery, Maferima and Ann L. McGill, “When Fear is Human: Interpersonal Trust and the Effect of Anthropomorphized Diseases on Health Persuasion.”

 

Klayman, Joshua and Ann L. McGill, “Make Believe:  Why Magic, Superstition, and Pseudoscience are Credible.”

 

Faro, David and Ann L. McGill, “Mere Presence and Variety Seeking.”

 

Vohs, Kathleen and Ann L. McGill, “A Realistic Marriage:  How Consumers Maintain Loyalty and Cope with Flaws of Favorite Products.”

 

Gebhardt, Gary F., Gregory S. Carpenter, and Ann L. McGill, “My Best Competitor Has the Best Strategies:  Tautological Biases in Competitive Assessment.”

 

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

 

Journal of Consumer Research, 2003-present; Associate Editor, 2005-2009, Editor 2009-present.

Journal of Consumer Psychology, 1996-2005.

Journal of Marketing 1993-1996.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

American Marketing Association.

Association for Consumer Research.

Society of Experimental Social Psychologists.

Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

 

 

 

 

 

DOCTORAL COMMITTEES

                 

Maferima Tillery, in process

Sara Kim, in process

Stacey Finkelstein, in process

Min Jung Koo, completed 2009

Yan Zhang, completed 2009

Claire Tsai, completed 2007

Ying Zhang, completed 2007

David Faro, Co-Chair, completed 2006

Simona Botti, Chair, completed 2004.

Pankaj Aggarwal, Chair, completed 2001.

John H. Wright, University of Chicago, Co-Chair, completed 2000.

Christie Nordhielm, University of Chicago, completed 1998.

Michelle Peterman, Northwestern University, completed 1997.

Sonya Grier, Chair, Northwestern University, completed 1996.

Pat Duthie, Northwestern University, completed 1995.

Eyal Maoz, Northwestern University, completed 1995

Lauren Goldberg Block, Columbia University, completed 1993.

Marla Felcher, Northwestern University, completed 1992.

 

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

 

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

1997-present--Strategic Marketing Management, one-week, open-enrollment program, tri-annually.

1999-2001--Pricing Strategies and Tactics, one-week, open-enrollment program, tri-annually.

1997-present—Various strategic marketing, branding, and pricing sessions for corporate clients.

 

J.L. Kellogg, Graduate School of Management

1995-1997--Executive Development Program, three-week program, bi-annually.

1994-1997--Pricing Strategies and Tactics, three-day program, bi-annually.

1994-1997--Increasing Sales Force Productivity, one-week program, bi-annually.

1993-1997--Consumer Marketing Strategies, one-week program, bi-annually.

1994--Transforming Information Services, one-week program.

1993-1994--Managing Closely Held Companies, one-week program, bi-annually.

1993--Arts Marketing, two-day program.

 

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